Hello Atul Deshmukh, This is a semi-automatic email about new static checker warnings. The patch ef4647420025: "[SCSI] qla2xxx: Add support for ISP8044." from Aug 27, 2013, leads to the following Smatch complaint: drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c:2962 qla2x00_probe_one() error: we previously assumed 'base_vha' could be null (see line 2632) drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c 2631 base_vha = qla2x00_create_host(sht, ha); 2632 if (!base_vha) { ^^^^^^^^ Existing check. 2633 ret = -ENOMEM; 2634 qla2x00_mem_free(ha); 2635 qla2x00_free_req_que(ha, req); 2636 qla2x00_free_rsp_que(ha, rsp); 2637 goto probe_hw_failed; 2638 } [ snip ] 2954 probe_hw_failed: 2955 if (IS_QLA82XX(ha)) { 2956 qla82xx_idc_lock(ha); 2957 qla82xx_clear_drv_active(ha); 2958 qla82xx_idc_unlock(ha); 2959 } 2960 if (IS_QLA8044(ha)) { 2961 qla8044_idc_lock(ha); 2962 qla8044_clear_drv_active(base_vha); ^^^^^^^^ Patch adds dereference. 2963 qla8044_idc_unlock(ha); 2964 } regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html